TEHRAN – The United Nations Security Council would have to annul the former resolutions it passed against Iran citing Chapter VII of the UN Charter about the Iranian nuclear program if a deal is struck, the Iranian deputy foreign minister for general, political, and international affairs has announced.

Making the comment on his Instagram page on Tuesday, Hamid Baeedinejad said that the Security Council has passed seven resolutions citing Chapter Seven of UN Charter against Iran and that the world body must declare them null and void by a new resolution, IRNA reported.

Iran suffered many blows from the resolutions the UN Security Council passed against it citing Chapter Seven of the UN Charter, he said, adding that now the time has come for the Security Council to pass a new resolution to revoke the former ones.

“Now it’s the Security Council’s turn to revoke the former resolutions, making the member countries committed and binding to lift the sanctions. Especially, under the current circumstances that the U.S. Congress and certain important power institutions in the U.S. repeatedly threaten that the U.S. should not remain loyal to the nuclear accord in the future,” he added.

Baeedinejad said that the Security Council misportrayed the Iranian nuclear program as a threat to international peace and security by citing Chapter Seven of the UN Charter to pass resolutions against Iran, which was a prelude to the UN sanctions.

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